47

Ivan

"Hi sweetie," the doctor went closer to her on the bed."how are you feeling? Tell me how your body feels right now."

Jewel wasn't saying anything so the woman went on to ask:

"Are you cold?" Jewel nodded."Okay," the doctor smiled."Does your throat feel sore? Inside?"

"Yeah?" Jewel opened her mouth to answer her this time."Do I have a cold?"

"I think so, but we can't be sure yet, I will have to do a test but first, let me be sure of your temperature. Can you open your mouth for me?"

Jewel did like she was asked and I watched as the doctor gently slip the digital thermometer under her tongue. After some time, she took it out when it beeped and gasped, making me worry.

"This is high," the doctor shook her head."Can you tilt your head back for me?" Jewel again, did like she was asked and the doctor put on gloves on both her hands and took a long swab to Jewel's mouth,"Open your mouth..." The swab was inserted into her mouth when she opened her mouth."Wider?"

Jewel gave me a side eye while the doctor scraped from her throat using the swab. I tried to maintain eye contact with her, to make her feel better but she looked away. Was she angry at me?

"Good, you were cooperative, thank you for that." The doctor packaged what she just used to swab Jewel's throat."I will take this back with me and have some test run to be sure of what we are dealing with but for now..." She trailed an returned to her bag.

"...for now, make sure she drinks a good amount of water to help her sore throat and she should rest till I get back to you with the test results, meanwhile, make sure she takes two hundred to four hundred milligrams of this," she handed me a bottle of drugs."It's ibuprofen, she should take it every four to six hours for the pain, aches and fever she's experiencing."

"Okay."

"Please, call me if anything changes with her."

"Yes," I nodded my agreement and followed her out to the door. "Thanks for coming." I told her before closing the door then I hurried back to Jewel's room. When I got there, I saw that her eyes were closed.

Had she really fallen asleep in the short time it took for me to walk the doctor out? I wanted to talk to her so I sighed in disappointment when I saw her with her eyes closed. I went to her to cover her feet with the blanket so they didn't get cold but when I got closer to her, I noticed the movements of her eyelids.

She has just got to be kidding me. She was pretending to be asleep; at least she was trying to but she couldn't. Her eyelids started to shake and batter when I was standing by the bed where she lay. She was avoiding me by doing this; it wasn't hard to depict why she was faking being asleep. 

I decided to play along in the game she started. I covered her with the blanket and stared at her for a second when an idea struck me. I went to the other side of the bed and climbed in, laying by her side and making sure to brush my arm against hers so she could have an idea of what I was doing.

I laid there for a while but she didn't open her eyes, instead her lashes quivered uncontrollably as she tried to still keep her eyes shut. I smiled and shifted my body on the bed, taking myself closer to her. I could hear how loud her breathing had become. Why wouldn't she just give up and open her eyes.

I suddenly had a rethink on what I was doing. What the fuck was wrong with me? Was I really doing this? I gave myself a mental facepalm and got out of bed at the realization that I was discomforting her by doing what I was doing.

"I know you don't want me around and are probably mad at me so I'm going to leave now. Goodnight. I'll come check on you later, to know if you are alright and if you need anything just let me know?" I told her knowing she wasn't asleep and was listening.

I watched her eyelids shake and made her naturally long lashes batter the more. It made me snort out a low laugh. She was so terribly bad at pretending to be asleep.

I sighed and started towards the door. I opened it when I got to it and turned my neck to see if she would open her eyes and ask me to come back and join her in bed, either to talk or just lay next to her and stare at the ceiling, I would be glad with whichever she would choose.

Sadly, she didn't. She didn't move at all from the position she was and no word came from her. I went outside and closed the door. I was about to walk away but decided to wait and know if I would hear a noise come from her room and it came.

Some seconds after I left, I could hear her bathroom door open from where I was with my ear to the door. She was really waiting for me to leave. I shouldn't have said those things I said to her yesterday. I shouldn't have. I sighed, hating myself at that moment.

I couldn't even decipher what she was angry about, that I said those things to her? Or that I left abruptly, leaving her alone to herself with her eyes closed. I am just the worst. The very first time I am this indulged in a woman and I loose my flirting charm. I should have just kissed her yesterday. I shouldn't have had a change of mind; I should have just done what all of me wanted at that moment. But then, I had to rethink. Jewel wasn't just a woman who I liked and I could just go for, she was my abductee and I was her kidnapper. Her father broke off the agreement he had with Don Oleg and now she's here, in my house and I'm loosing my mind thinking of her almost all the time beyond and within my control.

I know Lenin is right when he says I am being nice with her but I can't help myself at this point. Even when I try to be mean to her, I end up chastising myself for it.